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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGAstation...
Message-ID: <19110@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 14:41:53 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.180604.10623@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <12013@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Feb12.053906.10441@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1991Feb16.062147.24843@NCoast.ORG> <2290@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
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In article <2290@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) writes:

>	I believe the higher cost of the A2000 is not merely the addition of 
>the slots.  You need to take into consideration the cost of a power supply
>(that is 3 times the power rating of the A500), a bigger, sturdier case,
>a separate keyboard etc.  

Exactly.  The A2000 supply is actually almost five times the rating of the
A500 supply (200W vs. 35W).  Then there's the larger case size necessary to
house additional cards.  The fan necessary to cool them.  The Buster chip,
various buffers, and bypass/termination components necessary to create the 
expansion bus.  The extra PCB board space necessary for the expansion bus.
And, of course, the connectors themselves.

>Andy Nagy (ptoper@asterix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca)

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